AustLit logo

AustLit

Two-Handed Dick the Stockman : An Adventure in the Bush single work   short story  
Alternative title: Two-Handed Dick the Stockman
Issue Details: First known date: 1850... 1850 Two-Handed Dick the Stockman : An Adventure in the Bush
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Tells the story of the stockman, Two-Handed Dick, and how he defeats a rampaging bull and later a group Aboriginal Australians with a musket in one hand and an axe in the other, the latter incident giving rise to his nickname.

Notes

  • This story was originally published in Household Words in 1850. Sidney subsequently revised it for inclusion in Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia (1854), where it appears as Chapter V (pp. 71-85).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Household Words vol. 1 4 May 1850 Z1243052 1850 periodical issue 1850 pg. 141-144
    Note: With title: 'Two-Handed Dick the Stockman : An Adventure in the Bush'
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser vol. 5 no. 218 28 August 1852 Z1768630 1852 newspaper issue 1852 pg. 1-2
    Note: Author unattributed. Editor's note: From Dickens' Household Words
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire 3 September 1867 Z1823113 1867 newspaper issue 1867 pg. 6
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Bugle Call 'Herbert Strang' (editor), London : Henry Frowde Hodder and Stoughton , 1918 Z1576796 1912 selected work children's fiction children's London : Henry Frowde Hodder and Stoughton , 1918
    Note: Illustrated by Francis Hiley.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Further Tales from Botany Bay John Lang , Samuel Sidney , Victor Crittenden (editor), Canberra : Mulini Press , 2005 Z1228008 2005 selected work short story extract This selection claims to brings together the uncollected Australian stories of John Lang, previously published separately in English and Indian periodicals and newspapers. Research since its publication shows that some of the stories are in fact extracts from a novel Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia by Samuel Sidney Canberra : Mulini Press , 2005 pg. 36-44
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Tales of the Bushman Samuel Sidney , John Sidney , Canberra : Mulini Press , 2006 Z1328626 2006 selected work short story

    John Sidney came to Australia in 1840. He spent ten years in the colony. On his return to England he told his brother Samuel about his experiences in Australia. Samuel wrote them down and they were published in Household Words 1850-1852. John returned to Australia and sent news back to his brother. Samuel Sidney never visited Australia. His novel Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia is based on his brother's information.

         Canberra : Mulini Press , 2006     pg. 5-14
VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS ()

Related Works

Two-Handed Dick the Stockman Samuel Sidney , 1850 extract short story (Two-Handed Dick the Stockman : An Adventure in the Bush)
— Appears in: The Bathurst Free Press , 2 November vol. 2 no. 57 1850; (p. 7)
y separately published work icon Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia, or, Passages in the Life of Alfred Barnard Samuel Sidney , 1854 single work novel From a roving, largely outdoors, education in England and France, the narrator - an orphan - becomes unfitted for an office profession and emigrates to Australia. The stories recount aspects of his life in the colony. The narrator finally returns to England - near York - for Christmas. He hears sad tales of England's poor but finds rich welcome with his family - and a wife.
VIEW ALL RELATED WORKS (2)
Last amended 12 Dec 2011 16:07:35
Subjects:
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X